Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 351 240 326
Rank change year-on-year -111 +86 -19
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 571 677 681
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.36% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.52% 1.01%
Number of salaries quoted 267 291 366
10th Percentile £36,650 £45,000 £38,985
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,745 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £73,750 £87,500 £94,688
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £118,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,850 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.64% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 77,641 44,566 67,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.69% 89.32% 81.09%
Number of salaries quoted 53,461 25,406 43,850
10th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £48,073 £50,000
% change year-on-year +14.41% -3.85% -9.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 9 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -113 511 £61,845 -11.65% 839
London -16 317 £66,771 -13.84% 559
Work from Home +30 244 £62,500 -3.85% 315
UK excluding London -187 199 £60,850 -2.64% 317
North of England -19 64 £63,076 -11.47% 70
North West +10 39 £75,000 +17.65% 43
South East -158 35 £41,000 -34.40% 97
Midlands -37 31 £47,500 -21.16% 41
East of England -28 29 £63,750 -13.27% 39
South West -76 25 £68,528 +14.21% 32
West Midlands -32 24 £52,500 -12.50% 33
Yorkshire -38 21 £60,850 -22.73% 21
Scotland +4 11 £81,250 - 24
East Midlands -31 7 £37,500 -46.04% 8
North East - 4 £63,076 - 6
Wales -64 3 £65,000 +8.59% 9
Northern Ireland -75 2 - - 8

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 26 (4.55%) Confluence
2 16 (2.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 10 (1.75%) CMS
3 10 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.18%) Apache
5 1 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.18%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 53 (9.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 29 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (0.88%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.70%) Moqups
6 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.35%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 39 (6.83%) Workfront
2 4 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.70%) Shopify
3 3 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
4 2 (0.35%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.18%) Eikon
5 1 (0.18%) iTrent
5 1 (0.18%) Magento
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.18%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.18%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.18%) PeopleSoft HCM
5 1 (0.18%) RMDS
5 1 (0.18%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.18%) SAP ECC
Cloud Services
1 89 (15.59%) SaaS
2 83 (14.54%) AWS
3 58 (10.16%) Azure
4 53 (9.28%) iPaaS
5 19 (3.33%) GCP
6 18 (3.15%) Google Workspace
7 16 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
8 14 (2.45%) Figma
8 14 (2.45%) GitHub
9 13 (2.28%) Power Platform
10 10 (1.75%) GitHub Copilot
10 10 (1.75%) OneDrive
11 7 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
11 7 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (1.05%) Asana
13 5 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
14 4 (0.70%) Amazon Bedrock
14 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 3 (0.53%) Dynamics 365
15 3 (0.53%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 61 (10.68%) Broadband
2 31 (5.43%) HTTP
3 10 (1.75%) WAN
4 7 (1.23%) Firewall
4 7 (1.23%) SD-WAN
5 6 (1.05%) LAN
6 5 (0.88%) Network Security
7 4 (0.70%) Multicast
7 4 (0.70%) NGN
7 4 (0.70%) SAN
8 3 (0.53%) Intranet
8 3 (0.53%) MPLS
8 3 (0.53%) VSAT
8 3 (0.53%) WLAN
9 2 (0.35%) DNS
9 2 (0.35%) Ethernet
9 2 (0.35%) Skype
9 2 (0.35%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (9.46%) Metadata
2 12 (2.10%) Power BI
3 6 (1.05%) SQL Server
4 5 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 4 (0.70%) Big Data
5 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
6 2 (0.35%) Geospatial Data
6 2 (0.35%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.35%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.18%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.18%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.18%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.18%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.18%) MySQL
7 1 (0.18%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.18%) Redis
7 1 (0.18%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.18%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (8.93%) JIRA
2 9 (1.58%) Git
3 7 (1.23%) Claude Code
4 6 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.05%) Selenium
5 4 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 4 (0.70%) Postman
6 3 (0.53%) JUnit
7 1 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.18%) GitLab
7 1 (0.18%) TestNG
7 1 (0.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 187 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 185 (32.40%) Marketing
3 182 (31.87%) Finance
4 94 (16.46%) Banking
5 91 (15.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 85 (14.89%) Law
7 77 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
8 66 (11.56%) Retail
9 63 (11.03%) Presentation Skills
10 51 (8.93%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (6.13%) Public Sector
12 29 (5.08%) Legal
13 23 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
14 20 (3.50%) Back Office
15 17 (2.98%) Italian Language
15 17 (2.98%) Telecoms
16 16 (2.80%) Manufacturing
17 14 (2.45%) Retail Banking
18 11 (1.93%) German Language
19 10 (1.75%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 175 (30.65%) Product Manager
2 77 (13.49%) Lead
3 74 (12.96%) Product Owner
3 74 (12.96%) Senior
4 44 (7.71%) Software Engineer
5 40 (7.01%) Senior Manager
6 37 (6.48%) Senior Product Manager
7 32 (5.60%) Development Engineer
7 32 (5.60%) Software Development Engineer
8 29 (5.08%) Lead Software Engineer
9 21 (3.68%) Consultant
10 19 (3.33%) Product Lead
11 17 (2.98%) Developer
11 17 (2.98%) Platform Manager
12 16 (2.80%) Development Manager
13 15 (2.63%) Business Consultant
13 15 (2.63%) Technical Manager
14 14 (2.45%) Business Development Consultant
14 14 (2.45%) Development Consultant
15 13 (2.28%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.65%) REST
2 14 (2.45%) Google Maps API
2 14 (2.45%) React
3 7 (1.23%) LangChain
4 6 (1.05%) CSS
4 6 (1.05%) HTML
4 6 (1.05%) Spring
5 5 (0.88%) PyTorch
5 5 (0.88%) Spring Boot
5 5 (0.88%) TensorFlow
6 4 (0.70%) FIX Protocol
6 4 (0.70%) LangGraph
6 4 (0.70%) Node.js
6 4 (0.70%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.53%) .NET
7 3 (0.53%) CrewAI
7 3 (0.53%) LlamaIndex
7 3 (0.53%) Pandas
8 2 (0.35%) FHIR
8 2 (0.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 185 (32.40%) Product Ownership
2 64 (11.21%) Social Media
3 54 (9.46%) Marketing Technology
3 54 (9.46%) Over-the-Top Content
4 40 (7.01%) Cloud Native
5 36 (6.30%) Public Cloud
6 32 (5.60%) Onboarding
7 30 (5.25%) AI Agents
8 19 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.98%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.45%) Augmented Reality
10 14 (2.45%) Virtual Reality
11 13 (2.28%) Web Conferencing
12 12 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (2.10%) Enterprise Cloud
13 11 (1.93%) Educational Technology
13 11 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.58%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.40%) Driving Licence
15 8 (1.40%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.63%) Linux
2 9 (1.58%) Windows
3 4 (0.70%) Unix
4 3 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.18%) Android
5 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.18%) CentOS
5 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (61.30%) Roadmaps
2 246 (43.08%) Agile
3 167 (29.25%) Product Roadmap
4 146 (25.57%) AI
5 139 (24.34%) Product Vision
6 128 (22.42%) Decision-Making
7 122 (21.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 111 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
9 108 (18.91%) Customer Experience
9 108 (18.91%) Product Backlog
10 106 (18.56%) User Stories
11 95 (16.64%) Problem-Solving
12 89 (15.59%) Software Engineering
13 88 (15.41%) Product Strategy
14 86 (15.06%) Product Requirements
15 81 (14.19%) User Experience
16 80 (14.01%) Analytics
17 79 (13.84%) Mentoring
18 76 (13.31%) Sprint Planning
19 75 (13.13%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 47 (8.23%) Java
2 30 (5.25%) Python
3 13 (2.28%) TypeScript
4 12 (2.10%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.10%) SQL
5 8 (1.40%) C++
6 6 (1.05%) Bicep
7 5 (0.88%) R
8 3 (0.53%) Bash
8 3 (0.53%) C#
8 3 (0.53%) MATLAB
8 3 (0.53%) PHP
8 3 (0.53%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.35%) Perl
10 1 (0.18%) C
Qualifications
1 120 (21.02%) Degree
2 29 (5.08%) Master's Degree
3 22 (3.85%) Security Cleared
4 20 (3.50%) SC Cleared
5 18 (3.15%) MBA
6 14 (2.45%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.58%) HND
8 8 (1.40%) HNC
9 7 (1.23%) CSPO
9 7 (1.23%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.23%) PMP
10 6 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.88%) PhD
12 4 (0.70%) CCNA
12 4 (0.70%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (0.70%) DBS Check
13 3 (0.53%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.53%) CISSP
13 3 (0.53%) IIBA
13 3 (0.53%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (6.30%) QA
2 23 (4.03%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.58%) GDPR
4 7 (1.23%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.05%) PMO
6 4 (0.70%) PERC
6 4 (0.70%) SLA
7 2 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.35%) DICOM
7 2 (0.35%) GRC
7 2 (0.35%) HL7
7 2 (0.35%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.18%) DO-178B
8 1 (0.18%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.18%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (1.75%) Docker
2 5 (0.88%) Firmware
3 4 (0.70%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.53%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.35%) vSphere
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (2.98%) Terraform
2 9 (1.58%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.53%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.53%) WSUS
4 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.18%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.18%) Ansible
5 1 (0.18%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.18%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 59 (10.33%) Adobe
2 55 (9.63%) Microsoft
3 26 (4.55%) Google
3 26 (4.55%) Salesforce
4 16 (2.80%) Facebook
4 16 (2.80%) OpenAI
5 11 (1.93%) Cisco
6 10 (1.75%) Oracle
6 10 (1.75%) Workday
7 6 (1.05%) Juniper
8 5 (0.88%) Fortinet
9 4 (0.70%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (0.70%) Toshiba
10 3 (0.53%) Aderant
10 3 (0.53%) Fujitsu
10 3 (0.53%) iManage
10 3 (0.53%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.53%) Reuters
10 3 (0.53%) Starlink
10 3 (0.53%) VMware